Alex Drake

Ray Carling News

2009 gets underway with FA Cup clashSaturday, January 3, 2009 @ 12:42AMThe Clarets get the new year underway in West London with an FA Cup 3rd round tie against Queens Park Rangers.

SEPTEMBER 2008 REVIEWWednesday, December 24, 2008 @ 10:12AM1st On a remarkable final day of the transfer window, Manchester City were taken over by Abu Dhabi United Group for Development and Investment and promptly signed Robinho from Real Madrid for a British record £32million fee...Manchester United completed their £30.75million signing of Dimitar Berbatov from Tottenham, who replaced him with Roman Pavlyuchenko from Spartak Moscow.

Blackburn turn to Allardyce after Souness talks collapseThursday, December 18, 2008 @ 12:24AM Blackburn Rovers will today present Sam Allardyce as their new manager after talks broke down with Graeme Souness over his return to Ewood Park. Allardyce, who has signed a three-year contract, will meet the players and coaching staff today before giving a press conference this afternoon.

Paul Ince was always going to end up the loser at BlackburnWednesday, December 17, 2008 @ 11:43PMSix weeks. Paul Ince had been in charge of Blackburn Rovers for only six weeks when stories began to surface of dressing-room unrest, although if that was the first the press had heard of it, it is a fair assumption that things had hardly been going swimmingly before then.

Rovers needed a coach .. not a warrior like InceWednesday, December 17, 2008 @ 6:39AMThe second, crunching tackle, which deposited Morten Gamst Pedersen in a groaning heap on the Brockhall turf, left his bewildered team-mates wondering just what their manager was trying to prove.